Mitchell Johnson on Atomic Spin

Assembling Your Computer’s Brain, Byte by Byte

The bootloader is an amazing little piece of hardware-specific code that knows how to put together a sane world for your operating system to live in.

DevOps & System Admin.

Configuring Per-Locale Font Selection with FontConfig

During a recent project, one of my primary goals was to enable good localization across the globe.

Development Practices

You’ve Gotta Pick Up the Ducky

Rubber duck debugging helps you solve problems by identifying issues that are not apparent or increasing your understanding of a system.

Embedded Systems

Focus-Handling Methods for Qt Quick StackViews

Qt Quick's StackView provides some very convenient app structure, but I found its focus handling left something to be desired.

Embedded Systems

Rapid Prototypes for Devices with Raspberry Pi

It can be hard to achieve quick feedback cycles on embedded projects. Here's an approach to rapid prototypes with cheap displays and a Raspberry Pi.

Ember.js

Why I Still Like Ember.js

Ember.js is an awesome framework, and one which has the distinction of avoiding my scorn even after working with it for two years. Here are 6 reasons why.

Ember.js

A Replacement for Ember’s Deprecated Ember.Set

The Ember.js Set implementation has recently been deprecated. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to replace with your own.

Python

Python Environment Management for Rubyists – a Guide

A crash course in setting up Python, using some of the Python community's excellent utilities for managing environments and dependencies.

Mobile Apps

Using Ember CLI with PhoneGap’s CLI Tools

A guide to getting ember-cli cooperating with PhoneGap to generate your mobile application.

Growing as Makers

Relaxing and Rediscovering Childhood Joy

As a small child, I loved nothing better than reading. After years of neglect, I've rediscovered a joyful activity that helps me relax.

jRuby

JRuby, Rails, and Jetty – Where Are my Assets?

Chasing down issues with static asset serving in Rails 4 under JRuby and Jetty. Where have my images and CSS gone?

iOS / OS X

First Impressions of Swift

A non-Apple programmer takes a look at some of his favorite features of Swift, plus a few misses.

Mitchell Johnson

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